When candidates are selected, molded, packaged, and advanced primarily because they serve the interests of an existing political machine, public service risks becoming a commodity rather than a calling to duty.
Some politicians, men and women, are willing to go to great lengths, completely compromising normal moral and ethical standards to achieve their career goals in politics, such as downplaying wrong-doings – even what should be considered criminal acts – of the very people they seek to form teams with at the expense of the taxpayers who will suffer under an alliance that is almost impossible to penetrate by the people. Created is a political mobster environment, one that’s been going on for decades, with the same hierarchy as in gangs, structured like a pyramid of power.
In Part 1, we defined the words ‘prostitute’ and ‘prostitution’ as one being the state of which they’re being used in an unworthy or dishonorable way, willingly. In these articles, the concern is not focused on individuals selling sex for money. The concern pertains to the corruption occurring within public office itself, behind the scenes, that is swept under the rug by elected officials with the usual “Oh, nothing to see here. Null and void.”
While money and funding of campaigns are necessary in American politics, as rotten corrupt and dirty as it is, the problem is when the rich fund the rich to oppress the candidates who are truly working in the best interest of the people. The political mobsters form a “you scratch my back and I will scratch yours” unspoken policy, sort of like an unwritten insurance policy.
This policy has formed an extremely shady system where people can practically start campaigning for their next government office as soon as they enter one office, as many have done multiple times in all levels of politics. Their focus on the job they are elected or selected (depending on whether election fraud occurred) to do is placed on the back burner, as they, like campaign junkies, race for the next opportunity.
These campaign-junkies-in-development often get elected initially to non-compensated or low-compensated positions in government. However, for the political prostitutes, and especially the campaign junkies, it is just a steppingstone to the next opportunity for position that provides more money and more power.
They use people, voters, to advance themselves personally, professionally, and most assuredly financially.
As commonly attributed to Lord Acton (John Dalberg-Acton), written in 1887 in a letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, said: “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”
Almost immediately upon being elected, or with corrupt supervisors of elections being selected, these political mobsters, while thinking the world of themselves and bathing in their own over-inflated self-image, start campaigning for the next position, tossing the position they were elected/selected to out the window.
The citizens become secondary. In fact, to the campaign junkies, the voters do not matter. The campaign becomes primary. Some call it a “blood sport” and they are in it to win at all cost. They pour tens of thousands of dollars of their own money into their campaign immediately after they file. Then, like a pyramid scheme, they organize people to donate $500 or $1,000 from multiple sources and entities to their campaign, a preplanned strategy designed to out-race financially their opponent. They organize useful idiots on their team to write about, for example posting “newsletters” on social media that talks about how so-and-so has out-raced financially the opponent in fundraising.
Money – fundraising – is used as an intimidation tactic.
Town halls, ribbon cuttings, public meetings, staged photo opportunities and carefully rehearsed speeches become nothing more than steppingstones toward the next title, the next salary increase, the next level of influence. Government slowly transforms from representation into self-promotion. Public office ceases to be about sacrifice and slowly becomes a career ladder climbed by ambition, favors, and connections.
The modern political machine thrives on dependency. It rewards loyalty over competence and connections over merit. Those inside the network protect one another because everyone understands the arrangement.
It’s a game of chess. It’s the game of politics.
One official supports another official’s project today because tomorrow the favor will be returned. Endorsements are traded. Appointments are exchanged. Campaign donations circulate within the same social and political circles like chips at a casino table. Just follow the money and pay attention to the campaign strategy company that a candidate hired. Pay attention to candidates who are friends too privately, as they tend to use the same dirty campaign management companies.
Anything you say against these gangsters, they will threaten you with lawsuits. Some go for the kill, so to speak.
Meanwhile, ordinary citizens are expected to sit quietly, pay taxes, obey regulations, and trust the very people who increasingly appear disconnected from the consequences of their own decisions.
Many voters still believe corruption only exists when someone is caught stuffing cash into a paper bag or directly violating the law. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
In reality, modern political corruption is often far more sophisticated. It hides behind procedure, technicalities, bureaucracy, legal maneuvering, selective enforcement, consultant contracts, lobbying groups, PAC money, and carefully crafted narratives pushed through friendly media outlets and political allies.
Your job as a voter is to become engaged, follow the money, look up information yourself, check the SOE’s website and discover where donations are coming from, contextualize the candidate’s website statements with ideological theories and apply critical thinking to evaluate how a candidate’s statements align with their actions.
Complacency has a high price.
While a candidate may register, for example, as Republican they may push policies that align with liberalism, such as redistribution of wealth and expansion of government programs, herein including school programs.
The corruption, the enemy from within, is not always illegal. Sometimes it is moral corruption. Sometimes it is intellectual corruption. Sometimes it is the corruption of silence.
How many politicians remain silent about wrongdoing because exposing it would damage their own ambitions? That happens from the local level all the way to the top. How many excuse behavior they would condemn in ordinary citizens simply because the offender belongs to the “correct” political alliance? How many candidates pretend to oppose the establishment publicly while privately seeking acceptance from it behind closed doors?
The public is repeatedly told that these relationships are normal, necessary, and harmless. But over time, the system begins to resemble less of a constitutional republic and more of a protected club where insiders advance one another while outsiders are treated as threats; a banana republic is formed right underneath your nose.
This is where the comparison becomes uncomfortable for many people. When you speak out about it, you will undoubtedly upset both the dirty politician and their flying monkeys, and they may even email you ranting about “where is the evidence” but the evidence of a candidate promoting policies that aligns with redistribution of wealth philosophies is right in front of you. Your failure to think critically is what allows it to continue.
The political prostitute does not necessarily sell principles all at once. Most sell them gradually, one compromise at a time. A favor here. A silence there. An endorsement in exchange for future support. A blind eye turned toward incompetence. A donor prioritized over citizens. A developer prioritized over neighborhoods. A political alliance protected at all costs. And eventually, the line between public service and self-service disappears entirely.
The tragedy is that many voters recognize this behavior but feel powerless to stop it. Years of broken promises, establishment control, low-information elections, media manipulation, and voter apathy have convinced many Americans that resistance is pointless. The phrase “that’s just politics” has become society’s surrender flag.
But surrender comes with consequences.
Communities decline. Taxes rise. Trust collapses. Local businesses disappear. Infrastructure deteriorates. Citizens grow angry while political insiders continue congratulating one another at banquets, fundraisers, and networking events completely detached from the frustration building among the people footing the bill.
And while the public argues amongst itself over party labels and slogans, another dangerous reality quietly grows in the background:
Political dynasties.
Families, alliances, donors, consultants, and entrenched power brokers who learn how to maintain influence regardless of who officially holds office. Elections begin to feel less like opportunities for change and more like carefully managed transfers of power within the same interconnected circles.
The faces may change. The system does not.
Stay tune for Part 3 of Politicians and Prostitutes.
By Karina Schmitt, Senior Blog Contributor